Jose Mourinho is a manager that guarantees you trophies even in his worst seasons, and it is understandable that Daniel Levy made him the new Spurs’ boss.
The Lilywhites did brilliantly last season and reached the final of the Champions League.
Fans expected their team to build on that this season and they didn’t, so it was important to make a statement like making Mourinho the new manager.
The Portuguese manager hasn’t had the best of times at Tottenham since his appointment, and Sun journalist David Kidd reckons that the manager’s failure has become a problem for Levy.
Tottenham are now with just a win in their last nine games and Kidd reckons that their recent run of form under the Portuguese manager has become “a nightmare scenario for Levy”
He seems to suggest that Levy is now stuck with Mourinho, who is costing the club £15million-a-year and still has three years to run on his current deal.
The Lilywhites have been hit hard financially, which could limit their spending in the next transfer window, and Kidd points to the fact that Mourinho has always spent well before earning his trophies.
He wrote in his Sun column: “This is a nightmare scenario for Levy – Spurs have been hit harder than any other Premier League club by the coronavirus pandemic”
“Since the opening of their impressive new stadium, they have higher matchday revenues than any other club, and were also banking on a significant income stream from NFL matches and music gigs”
“So now, without footfall, Spurs are – at least in Premier League terms – skint. Perhaps too skint to jettison a failing manager”
“Mourinho has a glittering CV but his triumphs at Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and even his limited successes at Manchester United – a Europa League, a League Cup and a Premier League runners-up spot – came after significant investment”
“At Spurs that was never going to be the case. Not pre-Covid and certainly not post-Covid. This is not a manager in tune with Tottenham’s ‘to dare is to do’, ‘glory, glory’ ethos.”
Kidd may be a journalist at the discredited Sun but he does make a very valid point, Levy is stuck with Mourinho, he cannot just fire him now without it costing an arm and a leg and Tottenham simply no longer have the cash to eject another manager.
This really is a nightmare scenario for Levy and to a large extent, self-inflicted.
I blame Liverpool. In the final game of the season it was a winner takes all game between them and Chelsea. Chelsea won and the money laundering Russian bought them. They were one game away from going bankrupt! Sven Goran BoringSwede recommended Chelsea over Spurs too. I have hated everything Swedish since. Ibra, Ikea, 70s porn and Abba.
When the likes of De Bruyne and Salah and robben are moved on because they cant get a game then you know you’ve got a good squad.
😆 Eto, essien, carvalho, terry, lampard, ballack, drogba, robben man the list was endless. Everyone bar gerrard who they nearly got too. The russian gangster Roman nearly bought us before the chavs too. He was definitely sniffing around us first.. All those players he bought when he first came was before ffp was a rule. Their whole squad was unreal… Yeah Ashley and Lewis are the same mold for sure. One stock broker billionaire said that ‘Ashley likes to have his car parked on everyones lawn, or 4 or 5 cars to make sure’. Fingers in many pies like lewis. They accumulate to speculate.. Then they speculate to accumulate.
Give me the Russian anyway. He has a business model with football at the forefront, from the academy to the loan system to the first team. Ashley used the toon to market Sports Direct. The stadium had its name but he didn’t pay the club one penny to use it. He and Levy would easily be mates!
I think this is right but someone may know better.
ENIC own 85.55% of THFC
Levy owns 29.4% of ENIC
I never liked the idea of Mourinho at Spurs. He always picks fights with his players and the scenario we have now with him openly criticising his team was not difficult to see coming.
Capitulation in a match makes me angry and yes, he should have thrown the hairdryer, but in private surely? Wenger and Ferguson always defended their players to the hilt unlike our Jose. I would not be unhappy to see him go, but who do we replace him with? Can we afford it now we have such eye watering debt?
I fear for the future of this club, especially when a second Covid spike hits.
😆 I been saying Levy should sack himself rather than jol, redknapp, poch, I’m sure more shockers to come in the future.. Problem is that as well as being CEO he is also owner. He won’t ever sack himself…… Ed Woodward for example his job is probably on the line often.. But never the likes of Levy, Abromivich, Mike Ashley, they own it so have total control… For him to jog on we need Enic to sell up, or go bankrupt and fold.
It’s a blessing in disguise, could you imagine the atmosphere in the NewLane stadium if there were repeat performances of the Sheffield match?
The coffers are drying up. Levy is probably out every night at home clapping the air for Levy luck which is fast running out. The footballing sucks. Make believe crowd noise during a broadcast, empty seats and poor form. Interest in these charlatans is at an all time low now. Another wave of 19 and the screws will surely tighten even further. TV revenues are keeping it afloat.
You nearly had me feeling sorry for Levy.
Jose was the wrong manager with the right portfolio. We needed a winner but not Jose. Problem was he was free and after sacking poch he was the only one cheapskate Levy would pick. Levy could go down in history as doing something Ivan scholar could not quite do.
My heart bleeds for him. He’s a fraud of a football CEO. He should get fired before Jose because I struggle to see what he has actually done to improve football at our Club. Any project manager can build a stadium, some could probably do it without doubling costs and bring it in on time! Good job Levy wasn’t in charge of building the Olympic stadium for 2012.